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Tiny Artist Acrylics

1/22/2018

 
I spent all day yesterday making a set of tiny jars of artist acrylics. First I found the bag of small wooden 'jars' that I've had stored away for decades. Then I got out all my folk art paints, which are stored in three old metal cookie tins. I divided the wooden jars into thirds, and painted each third with some of the colours from each box. 

It's a pain painting something 3-D because I can't paint the whole thing at once.  I have to paint just the top, let it dry, then paint the bottom and let that dry. And of course, everything needs two coats.   Then I painted the 'lids' white....again two coats....
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They were really starting to look like those oversize jars of acrylic paint that you can buy at the art stores.  But they needed labels.  I looked online to find some simple brand labels that were just black and white (Golden & Liquitex) shrank them down, and made a page with 35 tiny labels to print out.

​I cut out the tiny labels, glued them on, and gave everything two coats of Satin varnish, so they'd look more like plastic jars.. And then I had to mess them all up with paint splatters, because the paints need to look used, and not like they are brand new from the art store.
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earthspirits
1/22/2018 12:36:19 pm

As an artist, I have to say that I LOVE what you're doing here, making tiny BJD size artist props. These look very realistic! : )

Martha
1/22/2018 02:13:27 pm

Thanks! I'm rather pleased with them. Now if I could just make a reasonable looking 'artist studio'.

Jane
1/22/2018 02:11:05 pm

*gasp*
These jars are as good as the mud-splattered model railway buildings that my brother makes....wow, wow, wow!

Martha
1/22/2018 02:16:37 pm

Thanks! It's the details like that that make all the difference. My girl wouldn't be much of an artist if all her paint jars were sitting there clean and pristine - in other words, totally unused.

Rae
1/22/2018 06:41:09 pm

Those are amazing! Can't wait to see this doll in her studio with her 'artistic' boho outfit!

Martha
1/22/2018 06:51:38 pm

I'm just hoping I'm not building up the expectations too high. The hardest thing will be to create a proper artist studio. I don't usually make a specific room.


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